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  • EC lens on duplicate voters, BLOs may come knocking again to click photos

    Kolkata: Whether one has provided their photographs or not, the BLOs can come knocking at home again, this time to take your photographs on mobile camera. These photographs will be scanned by the EC, which will use AI-based software ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘SIR anxiety’ claims two more lives

    Kolkata: Another death linked to "SIR-related panic" was reported from South Dum Dum on Monday.According to police, the deceased has been identified as Baidyanath Hazra. His body was found hanging from a tree in his neighbourhood on Monday afternoon. ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Chingrighata girder launching likely over next two weekends

    Kolkata: The long-awaited girder-launching for the Orange Line at Chingrighata is likely to be done over the coming weekend and the next, cops have told RVNL. The work was due to start last Friday, but cops pleaded helplessness because ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Nepal Consulate shift: MoU boost for Purple Line metro

    Kolkata: Metro Railway inked an MoU with the Nepal govt on Monday for shifting the Nepal Consulate's current Kolkata address to a building next door, thus paving the way for the Purple Line's ramp construction on DH Road.The MoU ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Plaint, counter-plaint after brawl at eatery

    Kolkata: An altercation at an eatery in the early hours of Sunday, involving an engaged couple and a restaurant staffer, allegedly escalated into a physical confrontation, with both parties filing cop complaints against each other.According to the couple, they ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops reject app-shuttle minibuses’ plea to use Maa

    Kolkata: Despite requests from various app-cab firms and transporters operating 16- to 24-seater buses in the city, Kolkata Traffic Police on Monday clarified they will not allow minibuses — usually the app-based shuttles ferrying IT employees to the IT ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Gas cylinder subsidy’ calls back on prowl, dupe 11 victims of lakhs

    Kolkata: Around 11 Kolkatans last week came to Kolkata Police reporting losses — from a few thousand to a few lakhs — through the "gas cylinder scam", wherein the victims reportedly received calls purportedly from their local gas dealer, ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Telemedicine services cross 7 crore milestone

    Kolkata: On Oct 31, the son of an elderly woman rushed her to the Ramgopalpur Health & Wellness Centre with severe abdominal pain. Evaluation by the health officer at this health unit in Burdwan's Galsi block suggested signs of ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Will never ask for OTP for physical verification: EC

    Kolkata: The EC on Monday clarified that they did not ask for any OTP related to the ongoing SIR in the state. Issuing a press note, the office of the chief electoral officer, West Bengal, said, " of India ...

    18 November 2025 Times of India
    Pentathlon endurance event concludes in Kolkata after covering 512 km across Bengal

    KOLKATA: The gruelling biennial endurance event, Pentathlon, organised by Sea Explorers' Institute (SEI), involving trekking, rafting, kayaking, rowing, and sailing, got underway at Sandakphu on November 5 and concluded at Outram Ghat in Kolkata on Monday.Unlike the last edition ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Over 24 hours later, pocket fires keep firemen on toes at electrical goods hub

    Kolkata: More than 24 hours after a devastating blaze swept through Ezra Street — eastern India's largest marketplace for electrical goods — firefighters battled persistent pockets of fire on Sunday, with thick smoke continuing to emerge from several damaged ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Bus no-scrap policy bad for city’s air quality, say green experts

    Kolkata: Kolkata's air-quality experts and green activists are raising the alarm after the recent court order lifting the long-standing ban on 15-year-old buses in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA). They warn that the move could reverse hard-won gains in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Shatrughan’s praise for Nitish raises eyebrows in TMC

    Kolkata: Trinamool MP and veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha's effusive praise for Nitish Kumar after NDA's victory in the Bihar Assembly Election has raised eyebrows within his own party with some members saying that his comments could affect Trinamool's image ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata researcher in Finland gets patent for plastic bag substitute

    Kolkata: A Kolkata youngster has devised a biodegradable material that can act as a substitute for plastic bags and received a patent for it. Aviroop Mukherjee (30) created the material after two years of research at his laboratory and ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Kalyan hits back at Guv for SIR remark

    Kolkata: Amid the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, MP Kalyan Banerjee and Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose engaged in a verbal spat, with both threatening each other with legal action.The row ignited after Bose backed ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake set to get new-look overhead tanks by year end

    Kolkata: From reconstructing the overhead top dome slab to jacketing the structure, enhancing the pumping capacity, and revamping the existing infrastructure, all 15 overhead water reservoirs across Salt Lake are undergoing major upgrade and revamp work for the first ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    MP minister under fire for calling Rammohun ‘angrezon ke dalal’

    Kolkata: Madhya Pradesh education minister Inder Singh Parmar's statement that Raja Rammohun Roy was an "angrezon ke dalal" (a British agent) has sparked protests in Bengal by his own party as well as , educationists and experts engaged in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    3 arrested for live betting inside Eden during India-SA match

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police busted a live betting racket being operated from inside the Eden Gardens during the India-South Africa test match on Saturday afternoon. Three men from Maharashtra, Bihar, and Gujarat were arrested from the F1 block of the ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Sprinklers get back to work as AQI worsens

    Kolkata: In a major push to curb Kolkata's recurring winter air pollution crisis, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) deployed a fleet of electric vehicles equipped with integrated dust-suppression and water-sprinkling systems. These specialised EV-based sprinklers not only ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted Ezra Street agiary was our personal hotline to Ahura Mazda

    My growing-up years were inextricably linked to the Banaji agiary — physically, too, because our rambling 120-year-old house shared a wall with it. My mornings were infused with the fragrance of sandalwood mingling with the mundane aromas from our ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Only 4.6% growth in Kol electorate in 23 years, Bengal records 69% rise

    Kolkata: Bengal has witnessed an impressive 69% surge in voter count over the past 23 years, but Kolkata's growth has been a paltry 4.6%.A comparative analysis of the electoral rolls prepared after the previous special intensive revision (SIR) in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Central agencies question 3 UAPA-accused in Bengal jails

    Kolkata: Three accused persons, arrested under three different cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and lodged in Bengal prisons, were questioned by central investigating agencies in connection with the Delhi blast.Tania Parvin, a Lashkar-e-Taiba handler arrested in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Illicit mkt in 5 key sectors valued at 7.9L cr: Study

    Kolkata: The size of the illicit market in five key sectors — packaged FMCG, including personal and household care, alcohol, tobacco, textiles and apparel — was valued at Rs 7.9 lakh crore, according to a Ficci-Cascade study.The study highlighted ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Matri Bhavan celebrates 75 years of service in city

    Kolkata: Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Matri Bhavan in Kolkata commemorated its 75 years of glorious journey on Sunday at Nazrul Manch during a daylong grand public celebration. Matri Bhavan hospital, situated at Sree Mohan Lane near Mudiali, with a capacity ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Pet parents hit the streets, link vote to animal rights

    Kolkata: Animal activists, including feeders of strays, walked in an approximately 4 km march from Jadavpur to Golpark on Sunday, protesting against the Supreme Court's Nov 7 order on removal of stray dogs from schools, hospitals, and public institutions. ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Fire 5 days before GST deadline, traders weep over lost docus

    Kolkata: Just five days before the deadline to file GST, hundreds of traders on Ezra Street, who lost goods worth several lakhs in the fire that ravaged approximately 350 shops on Saturday, are facing more losses. They fear that ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Will take battle of ‘existence’ to Delhi: Abhishek to Matuas

    Kolkata: A three-member Trinamool Congress delegation led by ministers Shashi Panja and Snehashis Chakraborty met protesters from the Matua community on Sunday, handing them a written message from the party's national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee.The protesters have launched a ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal fisherman with hearing, speech disabilities dies in Bangladesh jail

    Kolkata: A fisherman with hearing and speech disabilities from Bengal's Kakdwip has died in a prison in Bangladesh, his family was informed on Saturday. Bablu Das, 32, had been intercepted by Bangladesh navy along with 33 other Indian fishermen ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal had 3rd highest cases pending trial in 2023: NCRB

    Kolkata: Bengal had as many as 17,80,452 cases pending trial at the end of 2023, the third highest in the country, according to the ‘Crime in India 2023' report prepared by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).The huge backlog in ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman loses gold chain to Bypass snatchers, 2 held

    Kolkata: A woman, Reena Das, allegedly lost her gold chain to bike-borne snatchers on Sunday morning while returning from a morning walk near the Metropolitan housing complex off E M Bypass. Within 10 hours of the incident, two of ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Cashless cover at SSKM’s Woodburn, Ananya wards

    Kolkata: The century-old Woodburn Ward and the recently launched Ananya Unit (Woodburn 2) at SSKM Hospital will soon offer a cashless facility to patients admitted under health insurance schemes. The hospital entered into a contract with General Insurance, a ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    Sunday blues for BLOs: Tech glitches, online-offline voter data mismatch

    Kolkata: Working for two successive weekends without a break, booth level officers were asked by the EC to upload all SIR enumeration form data on BLO app by month-end. The fortnight's target comes in the backdrop of some BLOs ...

    17 November 2025 Times of India
    NIA detains Al-Falah doc in N Dinajpur

    Malda/Kolkata: The NIA is questioning a doctor, Janisar Alam alias Nisar, a recent graduate from the now-infamous Al-Falah Medical College in Faridabad, after detaining him from Dalkhola in North Dinajpur, where he had come to attend a wedding.Sources said ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Old para studios, photo copiers ride on SIR high, come back to life

    Kolkata: The photo studio business has suddenly come back to life after the launch of Special Intensive Review (SIR) of electoral rolls in the city. A few existing photo studios in the city have been experiencing a heavy rush ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    SIR for 25k prisoners across 60 Bengal jails soon

    Kolkata: Though late off the blocks, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) will also start in Bengal jails.In a Nov 14 order, the Bengal govt has allowed over 25,774 prisoners housed in 60 prisons statewide to "sign their SIR enumeration ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Guardian rule for city orphanages and hijras

    Kolkata: The Election Commission will apply the "Guardian Rule" to ensure that adult orphans, institutionalised children, and members of the hijra community are not excluded during the ongoing SIR drive. The clarification comes amid widespread concerns that the absence ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    'Apologise to people or legal action could be taken': TMC MP alleges weapons distribution at Raj Bhavan; governor opens gates for public inspection

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday strongly refuted Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee's allegations that arms were being distributed from Raj Bhavan, opening the premises to public scrutiny and demanding an apology from the MP or ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Fit cert enough, govt removes 15-yr age cap on comm vehicles

    Kolkata: In a key relief for private bus operators in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), the Calcutta High Court on Thursday disposed of a long-pending writ petition after the state govt presented a draft notification allowing stage carriage buses ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, AQI remains poor

    On , Kolkata is experiencing a sunny morning with temperatures expected to range between and , providing conditions suitable for outdoor activities. This follows yesterday's air quality, which was in the category with an , a condition ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman sells property to pay 30L to cabby after blackmail

    Kolkata: An app-based cab driver, Prem Singh—a native of Madhubani in Bihar—was arrested for allegedly extorting and blackmailing one of his woman passengers, who had developed a relationship with him, with her intimate photos. The accused, who has been ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Commuters come to blows at metro stn

    Kolkata: Two commuters were involved in a physical altercation at Esplanade metro station on Nov 12. Around 2.30 pm on Wednesday a female commuter, a resident of Golf Green, alleged that a male commuter attempted to force his way ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Fire engulfs E India’s biggest electrical appliance hub on Ezra Street, traders peg total loss at 100cr

    Kolkata: An early morning blaze in Ezra Street — eastern India's largest hub for electrical goods — gutted several shops, warehouses, offices, and the city's first Parsi fire temple, causing losses estimated at over Rs 100 crore (including goods, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Blocked lanes, dumped wares: Govt to meet traders next wk

    Kolkata: Taking note of the fire brigade's difficulty in fighting the blaze on Saturday, KMC mayor Firhad Hakim and fire & emergency services department minister Sujit Bose stated that the govt will soon convene a meeting with traders to ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted shops expose CBD’s fire-safety lapses

    Kolkata: The Saturday morning blaze in Ezra Street once again highlighted the lack of fire safety preparedness in the city's central business district. The blaze started shortly after 5.30 am in a building at 26 Ezra Street, a narrow ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Blaze ravages a slice of city’s Parsi link as flames destroy 186-yr-old fire temple

    Kolkata: The fire that ravaged Ezra Street also destroyed a slice of Parsi history with the gutting of the city's first fire temple constructed nearly two centuries ago.The agiari or the fire temple was established in 1839 by Parsi ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Construction continues, KMC to visit park on Mon

    Kolkata: Even as construction work at the park opposite the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station continued unabated on Saturday, green activists questioned the KMC's right to forfeit the maintenance of a public property to private organisations and allow the felling ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bihar no yardstick’: Trinamool shrugs off Owaisi’s success along border areas

    Kolkata: With Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) winning five seats in Bihar's Seemanchal that shares a border with Bengal, a repeat of the political posturing that was seen ahead of the 2021 Bengal assembly elections appears inevitable ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Federation, indie film-makers clash over censorship, technicians’ dues

    Kolkata: The recent controversy involving the censorship of an SRFTI student's feature film, which was barred from release due to objections from the Eastern India Motion Pictures' Association (EIMPA) and the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    NGT raps state agencies for canal clean-up delay

    Kolkata: The on Wednesday criticised state agencies for failing to clean Kestopur and Bagjola canals, even nine years after the issue first came under its scanner. Calling the delay "unacceptable", the eastern zone bench directed the state authorities ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Brawl at New Market pub over tips

    Kolkata: A violent altercation inside a New Market pub, where a female employee accused her colleagues of physical and mental abuse along with molestation, led to a police complaint being filed.The incident reportedly began when a 25-year-old resident of ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    KKR on course correction mode

    Kolkata: All good things come to an end as Kolkata Knight Riders' 11-year association with Andre Russell was broken on Saturday after the franchise released one of their most popular and utility cricketers ahead of the IPL mini auction. ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Durgapur man, 62, dies after stung 890 times by bees

    Durgapur: A 62-year-old man, who was hospitalised after being stung by a swarm of bees near Major Park at Durgapur on Monday, died at the hospital on Friday. Nirmal Dutta, former headmaster of RE Model School in the city, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Winter demand in bakeries & production cost spike push up egg prices in Kol mkts

    Kolkata: With the onset of winter chill from early Nov, the humble egg once again turned into a pricier breakfast essential. Prices jumped from Rs 7 per piece during Durga Puja to Rs 8 now — a significant rise ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake bizman falls prey to investment fraud, loses 1.8cr

    Kolkata: A 57-year-old businessman, residing at AC Block in Salt Lake, was allegedly duped of about Rs 1.8 crore in an investment fraud on an online platform. The victim was introduced to the fraudulent scheme through a WhatsApp group ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Displaced Bowbazar residents return to roots, collect forms at SIR camp

    Kolkata: Displaced residents from Durga Pituri Lane and Syakra Para Lane cave-in zone at Bowbazar returned to their old neighbourhood to collect enumeration forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on Saturday at a special camp. ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted shops expose CBD’s fire-safety lapses

    Kolkata: The Saturday morning blaze in Ezra Street once again highlighted the lack of fire safety preparedness in the city's central business district. The blaze started shortly after 5.30 am in a building at 26 Ezra Street, a narrow ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Presi girls’ hostel to get more CCTV cams

    Kolkata: Presidency University has decided to install more CCTV cameras around the periphery of the girls' hostel in Salt Lake following allegations of a miscreant hovering around the campus and making obscene gestures at the hostel inmates.Bidhannagar Police said ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    11 lakh yet to get forms; no deadline extension, says EC

    Kolkata: Officials of Election Commission's office in Delhi asked the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to complete distribution of forms by Sunday and emphasised that there will be no extension of Dec 4 deadline for submission and uploading ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    WBSSC releases preliminary interview list

    Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Saturday released the preliminary interview list for classes 11-12. A total of 20,500 candidates were listed for 38 subjects where the vacancy is 12,445. For every 100 vacancies in each subject, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Mercury crawls up, warmer days ahead

    Kolkata: The mercury crawled up marginally on Saturday in Kolkata, even as the Met office predicted slightly warmer days ahead. The minimum temperature was 17.6°C, while the maximum climbed a degree to touch 28.2°C. Both may climb a degree ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Undue load’, incomplete forms, no pic: BLO anger boils over collection hurdles

    Kolkata: SIR forms that had not been filled, non availability of elector's photographs and difficulties in uploading the data on BLO app were among multiple hurdles that BLOs faced as they went about collecting forms on Saturday. Pouring out ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    KMRC razes two more buildings for reconstruction of cave-in zone houses

    Kolkata: Two more houses were razed in the Bowbazar metro collapse zone to clear the remains of the elaborate construction activity that happened here in the past five years and make way for the reconstruction of houses that had ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    India's real estate sector: A beacon of optimism amid global challenges

    KOLKATA: NAREDCO Real Estate Sentiment Index for Q3 2025 has revealed a buoyant outlook for India's real estate sector, showcasing its resilience and adaptability in the face of global economic uncertainties. The Current Sentiment Score has climbed to 59, ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Partial closure of Ultadanga flyover

    Kolkata: The airport-bound flank of the Ultadanga Flyover, which connects EM Bypass to VIP Road, will remain closed for patch repairing, mastic asphalt laying, road marking and traffic appurtenance work from Saturday midnight to Monday morning — in five-hour ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Science City show features Raj-era stamps, postcards issued for World War fundraising

    Kolkata: When the world speaks of propaganda during World War II, it almost always invokes Nazi Germany and Joseph Goebbels' fiery broadcasts that manipulated the masses. Yet, halfway across the world, the British Empire ran its own quieter but ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Beautification’ kills over a dozen giants in Theatre Road park

    Kolkata: Call it a massacre of greenery. A prime public garden in central Kolkata has been ravaged by the indiscriminate felling of trees and concrete being poured into the ground in an apparent attempt to ‘beautify' the park. Trunks ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    AQI slips to ‘very poor’ zone 1st time this season in Kolkata

    Kolkata: With the winter chill slowly setting in and wind velocity slowing down, Kolkata's air quality started deteriorating sharply on Friday. For the first time this season, one of the Kolkata AQI stations recorded ‘very poor' reading on Friday.The ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Jhargram’s ‘Agnikanya’: 8-day-old poisoned by grandma survives infanticide bid

    Jhargram: A girl child who was poisoned by her grandmother eight days after she was born pulled out from the jaws of death after spending 11 days at a hospital at Jhargram district's Beliabera village. She has now become ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Dengue count in Kol hits more than a ton in a week

    Kolkata: Dengue cases in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area have seen a significant rise, with numbers escalating from 1,106 to 1,245 in just a week. This late surge, attributed to sporadic rain in late Oct, has raised concerns ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Bihar results will have zero impact on Bengal polls: TMC

    Kolkata: The Bihar poll results "will have zero impact in Bengal", Trinamool said on Friday, questioning Congress's "lack of performance" to lead the INDIA bloc and taking a dig at Prashant Kishor, saying the poll strategist was a "kishore ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    High court quashes molest FIR against Customs inspector

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday quashed the molestation FIR filed against Custom inspector , who was assaulted by a group of local miscreants at his flat in a Sonarpur housing complex last month. Kumar had moved HC ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    2-year-old slips through 7th floor window grille, dies

    Kolkata: A two-year-old girl died after falling from the seventh floor of a premium housing complex in New Town on Wednesday afternoon after slipping through a gap in a custom-made window grille, police said. The child was playing alone ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    EC to start checking EVMs in Bengal on Nov 21

    Kolkata: Ahead of next year's Bengal assembly elections, the Election Commission (EC) plans to start Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) checks on Nov 21. The process will continue in phases till mid-Jan. An EC team, led by deputy election commissioner ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Wave of support in Bihar will reach Bengal: BJP

    Kolkata: A jubilant Bengal BJP on Friday expressed confidence that Bengal will see a repeat of Bihar, where NDA swept the polls, in the upcoming assembly elections. BJP's victory in Bihar has come at a time the party has ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Terror funds: NIA lens on B’desh nat’l in Dinhata

    Kolkata/Jalpaiguri: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has focused its attention on an alleged "Bangladeshi national", identified as Arif Hossain, who has been residing in India for the past decade. Evidence suggests he played a crucial role in arranging funds ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Docu confusion, tech glitches and upload delay mark first day of SIR form submission

    Kolkata: Technical glitches, delays in uploading data on the BLO app, mismatched information and confusing instructions by the BLOs plagued the SIR form submission process in Kolkata on Friday. By Friday early afternoon, about 13 lakh filled form details ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Fans reunite with red-ball cricket as Test returns to Eden after 6 yrs

    Kolkata: Six years since Kolkata last hosted a Test match, the city woke up on Friday to the unmistakable hum of anticipation as India took on South Africa on the opening day of the longest format's return to one ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘No bigots’ posters at ISI as campus erupts in fury against hateful graffiti

    Kolkata: A new set of posters was pasted on the walls of C V Raman Hall at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on Friday, vehemently denouncing the Islamophobic graffiti, scrawled on those very walls a day after the Delhi blast. ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Awami League netas, away from home, guide lockdown protests in Bangladesh

    Kolkata: Over the past 15 days, through a calculated and strategic campaign, Awami League's exiled leadership reached out to the party's rank and file through encrypted channels, including social media, to connect with its workers. This effort resulted in ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Blind poet’s new poetic style redefines verse rules

    Kolkata: Blind poet Satyajit Mandal's new poetic style, ‘alliteration rhythm', an innovative approach, promising to redefine the traditional flow of verses. Mandal's latest books of poems, created with the new style, officially recognized in Bengali, English, and Hindi ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Bank fraud: Cal HC refuses to grant bail to industrialist

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday refused bail to industrialist Sanjay Surekha, who was arrested by CBI in Dec 2024 in a bank fraud case, stating that while constitutional courts frown on long detention due to delay in trial, ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Scooter hits truck negotiating guard rails, woman dies while saving baby

    Kolkata: A 34-year-old young mother died while trying to save her two-year-old son after the electric scooter they were riding collided with a truck manoeuvring around a cluster of closely spaced guard rails at Kaikhali crossing on VIP Road ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    CBI shameless, say parents of RG Kar victim in court

    Kolkata: Parents of the victim of RG Kar rape and murder termed CBI as "shameless" on Friday. The central agency's investigating officer Seema Pahuja later said that she's also "a mother".On Friday, the CBI submitted the seventh status report ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Doctors save 20-day-old with cyst-covered lung

    Kolkata: While congenital heart diseases are much discussed, lung diseases are rarely talked about. Recently, doctors at Narayana Superspecialty Hospital (NSH) Howrah operated on a 20-day-old baby with severe respiratory distress in its emergency department. The newborn was diagnosed ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    After spate in snatchings, cops plan EMB outpost

    Kolkata: Rocked by the back-to-back incidents of snatching on E M Bypass and its surrounding areas — five cases in three months — Kolkata Police is planning to overhaul policing around the Kasba-Tagore Park-Panchannagram area to enhance security and ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    IIT tells 7 boys to stay at home for 6 months to 2 years, revokes expulsion, suspension

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur revoked its decision to expel three students, who were engaging in a violent fight on the campus, and instead, asked two of them to stay at home for four semesters or two years and the third ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Gang picks fight, assaults & robs brothers in Posta

    Kolkata: Two brothers returning home at night were allegedly targeted by a gang that picked an argument on flimsy ground with the elder of the two, before robbing them and fleeing. The incident was reported from Posta, near 3B, ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops seize drugs in New Mkt, 2 held

    Kolkata: The narcotics cell of the detective department arrested two youths, Md Zeeshan (23) and Md Akbar (22) of Park Street, and seized ecstasy (MDMA) from them in New Market around 9.30 pm on Thursday.Cops claim the drugs, stored ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Elderly couple gets back 65L lost to e-arrest crooks

    Kolkata: A Netaji Nagar couple, aged 84 and 77, who lost Rs 1.8 crore to a digital-arrest fraud last July, had Rs 65 lakh recovered on Wednesday by the Kolkata Police cybercrime division.The recovery came on the same day ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Parents organise autism convention in Kolkata

    Kolkata: The City of Joy is witnessing a convention highlighting the remarkable resilience of parents who has turned their personal experiences into a mission to build a more accepting and inclusive world for their children with autism. A three-day ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Show status of land given to Centre for border fencing: HC to state

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state govt to file an affidavit within 15 days stating the status of land to be handed over to the Centre for fencing the unfenced portions of the 2,216-kilometre border that ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    After Moon, Isro sets sights on Venus, Mars

    Kolkata: After successfully landing a rover on the Moon's south pole in Aug 2023 as part of mission Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has set its sights on Venus and Mars. While the space agency has already ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    1.5k cops, 3 drones, 2 rounds of frisking at Eden for India-SA Test

    Kolkata: The much-anticipated Test match between India and South Africa is set to commence at Eden Gardens on Friday — under a thick security blanket following the explosion in Delhi. No less than 1,500 cops will be on duty, ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    If you can’t submit SIR form now, EC will offer second chance after Dec 9

    Kolkata: The Election Commission of India has announced that those who will fail to submit their filled enumeration forms for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Dec 4 deadline will get a second ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Trainee doc held for molesting minor on med college campus

    Kolkata: A 32-year-old third-year postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor at Barasat Medical College and Hospital in North 24-Parganas was arrested on Thursday for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl under the pretext of examining her before a surgery.The accused, identified as ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang hospitalised: Nosebleed, high BP during event; under close medical observation

    GANGTOK: Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Tamang was admitted to hospital on Thursday, after he experienced nose bleeding and high blood pressure while attending a programme at Rangpo Ground, his son said.The incident took place during the ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    EC’s ‘Aadhaar data plot’ to delete voters won’t work in Bengal, says TMC

    Kolkata: Any attempt to make living voters dead using UIDAI's Aadhaar data, evident during the Bihar special intensive revision (SIR), will be resisted in Bengal both in the courts and on the streets, Trinamool said on Thursday.The party's sharp ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    You inhale microplastics equal to a plastic bottle

    Kolkata: An average Kolkatan inhales about 2.9 grams of microplastics over a lifetime, equivalent to breathing in a small plastic bottle, a study by researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, AIIMS Kalyani, and ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    New Town techie loses 16L in job fraud

    Kolkata: A 51-year-old New Town techie lost Rs 16 lakh in a job fraud after he paid the money to a fake placement agency for securing a top-level finance job at an MNC. The complainant, resident of Action Area ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    New Town techie loses 16L in job fraud

    Kolkata: A 51-year-old New Town techie lost Rs 16 lakh in a job fraud after he paid the money to a fake placement agency for securing a top-level finance job at an MNC. The complainant, resident of Action Area ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
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